Sorry to follow up a second time, but what is your training schedule in regards to the cross trainer. You do the monthly big runs, how often do you do shorter runs?
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Me and my sister go the gym 2-3 times a week (now 3-4 doing the sat mornings) we both do roughly the same workout but hers is about half the number of levels that i do.
normally i do a 5k or 10k on the cross trainer (depending on my mood), 2 mins on level 10 .. 1 min on level 15 ( thats just under 25ish mins for 5k and just under 50ish mins for 10k) trying to keep an average of 11.6 - 12.3 km/h
if i do a 5k, i'll also do 30 mins on a treadmill, level 15 for 20 mins, then level 10 for last 10 mins (might do a 5 min cool down, but not always) .. if i do the 10k on the cross trainer, i don't use the treadmill.
Sometimes the treadmills are full up, then i go onto the rowing machines for 15 mins, set the 'resistance' to about 5 or 6, and go as fast as is comfy, 7 1/2 mins palms down, 7 1/2 mins palms up and then go on the excersise bike for 15 mins on level 6 and just try and keep a comfy pace.
After that i'll go into the resistance weight room (weights built into the machines rather then freeweights thaat you add yourself , if you know what i mean)
and i'll go on each machine once, for a rep of between 25 and 30, between level 10 and 12 depending on the machine.. then i'll just walk about stretching legs or go on the power-plate and just vibrate all the tough muscles loose.
On a long cross trainer run, all i'll do is stretch my legs and go for it, it helps that there are a few tv's in front of you or i just play my mp3 player with good songs with a 'thumpy' beat. afterwards i'll go and get changed etc then go home and recover for rest of the day.
i also do 'half' push ups everynight (i can't get all the way down yet, so it's more of a halfway down bounce lol) as many as i feel like, (no preasure for silly numbers) and i have resistance bands, a powerball and hand grips that i'll sit at the computer and fiddle with.
2 and a bit years ago you wouldn't catch me doing any of this, now i really enjoy it. shame i never took it up sooner.
